FICTION: THE ELDER GODS

• “The Long Last Night” by Brian Lumley
• “Momma Durtt” by Michael Shea
• “The Darkness at Table Rock Road” by Michael Reyes
• “The Runners Beyond the Wall” by Darrell Schweitzer
• “Drain” by Matthew Jackson
• “The Thing in the Cellar” by William Blake-Smith
• “Found in a Bus Shelter at 3:00 am, Under a Mostly Empty Sky” by Stephen Gracia

FICTION: UNTHEMED

• “To Be a Star” by Parke Godwin
• “The Empty City” by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• “Abbey at the Edge of the Earth” by Collin B. Greenwood
• “Alien Abduction” by M. E. Brines

POETRY

• “Mummified” by Jill Bauman
• “In Shadowy Innsmouth” by Darrell Schweitzer
• “The Country of Fear” by Russell Brickey
• “Country Midnight” by Carole Buggé

DEPARTMENTS

• The Eyrie
• The Den
• Lost in Lovecraft

SPECIAL RAY BRADBURY SECTION

• “The Exiles (Original Version)” by Ray Bradbury
• “My New Ending to Rosemary’s Baby” by Ray Bradbury
• “Personal Memories of Ray Bradbury” by Marvin Kaye
• Review of “Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury” by James Aquilone
• “Remembrance” by Ray Bradbury

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This year’s Guests of Honor were Mike Resnick, Story Musgrave, Rowena Morrill, Jane Frank, Peggy Rae Sapienza, Sy Ligergot, Peter Sagal and toastmaster John Scalzi.

Best Novel

Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor)

A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra)
Deadline by Mira Grant (Orbit)
Embassytown by China Miéville (Macmillan UK / Del Rey)
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey (Orbit)

Best Novella

“The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by Kij Johnson (Asimov’s September/October 2011)

“Countdown” by Mira Grant (Orbit)
“The Ice Owl” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2011)
“Kiss Me Twice” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s June 2011)
“The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” by Ken Liu (Panverse 3)
Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA)

Best Novelette

“Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com)

“The Copenhagen Interpretation” by Paul Cornell (Asimov’s July 2011)
“Fields of Gold” by Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse Four)
“Ray of Light” by Brad R. Torgersen (Analog December 2011)
“What We Found” by Geoff Ryman (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2011)

Best Short Story

“The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2011)

“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld April 2011)
“The Homecoming” by Mike Resnick (Asimov’s April/May 2011)
“Movement” by Nancy Fulda (Asimov’s March 2011)
“Shadow War of the Night Dragons: Book One: The Dead City: Prologue” by John Scalzi (Tor.com)

Best Related Work

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls, and Graham Sleight (Gollancz)

Jar Jar Binks Must Die…and Other Observations about Science Fiction Movies by Daniel M. Kimmel (Fantastic Books)
The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature by Jeff VanderMeer and S. J. Chambers (Abrams Image)
Wicked Girls by Seanan McGuire
Writing Excuses, Season 6 by Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Howard Tayler, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Jordan Sanderson

Best Graphic Story

Digger by Ursula Vernon (Sofawolf Press)

Fables Vol 15: Rose Red by Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham (Vertigo)
Locke & Key Volume 4, Keys to the Kingdom written by Joe Hill, illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
Schlock Mercenary: Force Multiplication written and illustrated by Howard Tayler, colors by Travis Walton (The Tayler Corporation)
The Unwritten (Volume 4): Leviathan created by Mike Carey and Peter Gross. Written by Mike Carey, illustrated by Peter Gross (Vertigo)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

Game of Thrones (Season 1), created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss; written by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman, Jane Espenson, and George R. R. Martin; directed by Brian Kirk, Daniel Minahan, Tim van Patten, and Alan Taylor (HBO)

Captain America: The First Avenger, screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephan McFeely, directed by Joe Johnston (Marvel)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, screenplay by Steve Kloves; directed by David Yates (Warner Bros.)
Hugo, screenplay by John Logan; directed by Martin Scorsese (Paramount)
Source Code, screenplay by Ben Ripley; directed by Duncan Jones (Vendome Pictures)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

The Doctor’s Wife” (Doctor Who), written by Neil Gaiman; directed by Richard Clark (BBC Wales)

“The Drink Tank’s Hugo Acceptance Speech,” Christopher J Garcia and James Bacon (Renovation)
“The Girl Who Waited” (Doctor Who), written by Tom MacRae; directed by Nick Hurran (BBC Wales)
“A Good Man Goes to War” (Doctor Who), written by Steven Moffat; directed by Peter Hoar (BBC Wales)
“Remedial Chaos Theory” (Community), written by Dan Harmon and Chris McKenna; directed by Jeff Melman (NBC)

Best Editor, Short Form

Sheila Williams

John Joseph Adams
Neil Clarke
Stanley Schmidt
Jonathan Strahan

Best Editor, Long Form

Betsy Wollheim

Lou Anders
Liz Gorinsky
Anne Lesley Groell
Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Best Professional Artist

John Picacio

Dan dos Santos
Bob Eggleton
Michael Komarck
Stephan Martiniere

Best Semiprozine

Locus edited by Liza Groen Trombi, Kirsten Gong-Wong, et al.

Apex Magazine edited by Catherynne M. Valente, Lynne M. Thomas, and Jason Sizemore
Interzone edited by Andy Cox
Lightspeed edited by John Joseph Adams
New York Review of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell, Kevin J. Maroney, Kris Dikeman, and Avram Grumer

Best Fanzine

SF Signal edited by John DeNardo

Banana Wings edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
The Drink Tank edited by James Bacon and Christopher J Garcia
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
Journey Planet edited by James Bacon, Christopher J Garcia, et al.

Best Fan Writer

Jim C. Hines

James Bacon
Claire Brialey
Christopher J Garcia
Steven H. Silver

Best Fan Artist

Maurine Starkey

Brad W. Foster
Randall Munroe
Spring Schoenhuth
Steve Stiles
Taral Wayne

Best Fancast

SF Squeecast, Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, Elizabeth Bear, and Catherynne M. Valente

The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe
Galactic Suburbia Podcast, Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce, and Tansy Rayner Roberts (presenters) and Andrew Finch (producer)
SF Signal Podcast, John DeNardo and JP Frantz, produced by Patrick Hester
StarShipSofa, Tony C. Smith

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

E. Lily Yu

Mur Lafferty
Stina Leicht
Karen Lord
Brad R. Torgersen

Lee Moyer won Best Cover Illustration: Magazine for Weird Tales, Winter 2010/2011 (below)

Moyer beat out Facundo Diaz for Clarkesworld, July 2011; Laura Diehl for Fantasy, August 2011; Carly B. Sorge for Apex Magazine, September 2011; and Dariusz Zawadski for Fantasy, May 2011. Check out a gallery of the cover images here.

Other Chesley Award winners included Tom Kidd (Best Cover Illustration: Hardback Book for Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison, Subterranean Press), Matthew Stewart (Best Cover Illustration: Paperback Book for The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells, Night Shade Books) and Irene Gallo (Best Art Director for Tor).

The Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award went to Jean Giraud, “Moebius.”

For the full list of winners go to Tor.com.

Art is by David “Sideshow Monkey” Hartman, whose credits include Rob Zombie, Image Comics, “Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny” and “Bubba Ho-Tep.”

Marvin Kaye is our editor and has full control over fiction published in the magazine and website, and he agrees with me on this.

Marvin was approached by Victoria Foyt, and was asked to review her novel. He was told that she was being slammed online by people who had not read it.

I have not read the novel, but have gone over its online presence today. I have no need to read it. I saw the blackface video and read the excerpts the author and publisher chose to make available. I must conclude that the use of the powerful symbols of white people forced to wear blackface to escape the sun, white women lusting after black “beast men,” the “pearls” and “coals,” etc., is goddamned ridiculous and offensive. It seems like the work of someone who does not understand the power of what she is playing with.

Marvin says if you read the whole book, she explains her use of this imagery, and it ends up as a plea for tolerance. I say, so what. And that is the position of Weird Tales — and upon reviewing the video and other materials, Marvin is in full agreement.

I deeply apologize to all who were offended by our association with this book. I am offended by it. I fully respect those who have been writing negative things about us today. You are correct.

I have removed Marvin’s endorsement because he no longer stands by it. Marvin is traveling and will make his own statement shortly.

Parke and I have been friends for over fifty years. We first met on a winter evening in the late 1960s at a West Side Manhattan YMCA where a showcase production of The Merchant of Venice was rehearsing. I was playing Old Gobbo, Tubal, and the Duke of Venice, and Parke was Shylock, so the first words he ever said to me were How now, Tubal, what news from Genoa? The first thing I remember him saying to me out of character was, “You’re dangerously intelligent for an actor!”

By dress rehearsal week in an ice-cold dressing room on the Lower East Side, he and I were pals, gabbing incessantly about theatre, music, film, booze, and science fantasy as we smeared on the cold cream and greasepaint.

Several months later, I directed the New York premiere of a pair of plays by Ray Bradbury, The Day It Rained Forever and A Clear View of an Irish Mist. The latter required a lot of men, so I called Parke and he agreed to do the show. From that time forward, we were in quite a few plays together and he was a charter member of my theatre company, The Open Book, now in its 37th year of continuous operation.

In the 1970s, I sold my first nonfiction book, my first novel, edited the first of many genre anthologies and began teaching writing at NYU. One afternoon, Parke stopped by with a partial manuscript of a book he said he was trying to write. I had no idea he’d begun as a promising writer, but switched to acting. That night I devoured the first sixty pages — all that was written so far — of Darker Places, Parke’s harrowing horror story. More pages came, and soon the book was finished.

I put Parke in touch with my first anthology editor, the colorful Pat O’Connor, then at Curtis. Pat swiftly snatched it up. Playboy Press reissued it a few years later. Then Parke wrote A Memory of Lions, the book that prompted me to suggest that he collaborate with me on an SF novel that became The Masters of Solitude.

Parke — most of his friends call him Pete because he dubbed himself that while acting in summer stock — went on to write a series of superb novels, including the historic trio, Firelord, Beloved Exile, and The Last Rainbow, and won the World Fantasy award for the title novella of his short story collection, The Fire When It Comes. One of the pieces in that volume is my personal favorite of his, “Influencing the Hell Out of Time and Teresa Golowitz,” which was dramatized on Twilight Zone.

Parke and I collaborated on two other novels, a haunted house story called A Cold Blue Light, and Wintermind, the sequel to The Masters of Solitude. Aficionados of our two SF books know we meant to write a final volume, Singer Among the Nightingales.

We knew if we ever got around to “Nightingales,” we would have to work on it differently. For one thing, our earlier books were written while we both lived in Manhattan, but Parke has been a resident of Auburn, California, for many years. Plus, Parke was only interested in writing one section of “Nightingales.”

I am now in the early stages of writing the final volume of our trilogy, and am pleased to report that Parke wrote his section before the onset of the health crisis. So Singer Among the Nightingales will be a true Kaye-Godwin collaboration.

World Fantasy Award Ballot

Novel
• Those Across the River, Christopher Buehlman (Ace)
• 11/22/63, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton as 11.22.63)
• A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
• Osama, Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
• Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)

Novella
• “Near Zennor”, Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors)
• “A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong”, K.J. Parker (Subterranean Winter 2011)
• “Alice Through the Plastic Sheet”, Robert Shearman (A Book of Horrors)
• “Rose Street Attractors”, Lucius Shepard (Ghosts by Gaslight)
• Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA Press; Clarkesworld)

Short Fiction
• “X for Demetrious”, Steve Duffy (Blood and Other Cravings)
• “Younger Women”, Karen Joy Fowler (Subterranean Summer 2011)
• “The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)
• “A Journey of Only Two Paces”, Tim Powers (The Bible Repairman and Other Stories)
• “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees”, E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld 4/11)

Anthology
• Blood and Other Cravings, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
• A Book of Horrors, Stephen Jones, ed. (Jo Fletcher Books)
• The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Harper Voyager US)
• The Weird, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Corvus; Tor, published May 2012)
• Gutshot, Conrad Williams, ed. (PS Publishing)

Collection
• Bluegrass Symphony, Lisa L. Hannett (Ticonderoga)
• Two Worlds and In Between, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press)
• After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer)
• Mrs Midnight and Other Stories, Reggie Oliver (Tartarus)
• The Bible Repairman and Other Stories, Tim Powers (Tachyon)

Artist
• John Coulthart
• Julie Dillon
• Jon Foster
• Kathleen Jennings
• John Picacio

Special Award Professional
• John Joseph Adams, for editing – anthology and magazine
• Jo Fletcher, for editing – Jo Fletcher Books
• Eric Lane, for publishing in translation – Dedalus books
• Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi, for ChiZine Publications
• Jeff VanderMeer & S.J. Chambers, for The Steampunk Bible

Special Award Non-Professional
• Kate Baker, Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan & Sean Wallace, for Clarkesworld
• Cat Rambo, for Fantasy
• Raymond Russell & Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
• Charles Tan, for Bibliophile Stalker blog
• Mark Valentine, for Wormwood

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So here’s what’s going on:

The first Weird Tales issue by our company, Nth Dimension media, has gone to press, and will be in your mailboxes by the end of February. It’s edited by Ann VanderMeer, has art direction by Stephen H. Segal, and is quite beautiful. Here’s the cover.

Stephen worked with our artist, Dave Buchwald (known in the graphic design world for creating the covers of 2600 Magazine), to create this cover, and we think it represents a style we will use for the near future. It features the new/old logo, an intriguing symbol by Jeff Wong (www.JeffWong.com), and a stunning piece of art by Aurielien Police.  The layout achieved what was most important to me – an emphasis on art, while keeping the writer in the forefront.

Did your subscription lapse? Well, you will not escape this issue. As a thank you to our passionate supporters, we are extending everyone’s subscription for TWO issues. So watch your mailbox, and let me know what you think.

I’d like to say a enormous thank you to Ann, Stephen, Paula and John and Carla from Wildeside for their help during this transition, and for taking this magazine as far as they did. I am very grateful that Ann is staying on as a contributing editor, and Stephen and John have made themselves available as consultants.

Now we must take the next step.

I’ll be responding to comments, so comment away, and check this space for more updates in the next few days.